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Not the biggest Apple fan but I've never had a good experience with $200 phones from Aliexpress/Gearbest. I always end up returning them. A lot of the times the
by durpleDrank 8y ago
Not the biggest Apple fan but I've never had a good experience with $200 phones from Aliexpress/Gearbest. I always end up returning them. A lot of the times they come with weird "Android" portal OS's. Meaning you can't really access the play store normally and annoying things like that.
There is mandatory bloatware that you can't remove for services that not many westerners know about. Even the microphone and cameras are usually crappy on these. I switched from using a xiaomi redmi 5 to an old Galaxy S4, and the S4 is so much better. Even though the specs are A LOT lower, the S4 had better Microphone processing, better Camera (although not as many mega pixels), and believe it or not less restrictive bloatware.
I realize all these products are made in China, I just want to tell a cautionary tale. The PRICE is right but I think the manufactures don't really understand QUALITY and CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE the way Apple does.
- chrisper 8y agoHuawei isn't $200 phones from Ali express. The P20 Pro is a great phone.
- Synaesthesia 8y agoEven the P20 lite is very impressive
- sgroppino 8y agoOr the Honor 9 lite which BTW also belongs to Huawei. Amazing value for money.
- jdietrich 8y agoThere are now a range of cheap Chinese phones that run completely stock Android, with updates directly from Google. https://www.android.com/one/ https://www.android.com/one/ The cameras do tend to be worse than on a flagship, but what do you expect for 1/3 of the price? They have to save money somewhere. An older flagship can be good value for money, but you're getting a phone with several years of wear-and-tear rather than something brand new.